The goal of the Astaro Community Software Project is to create a
working and extensible framework with which new (third-party) software
can be added to stock ASL systems. The desire to do this arose because
ASL systems are not simply standalone firewalls, they are
fully-functioning Linux servers. As such, they can be used for more
in-depth network hacking purposes than are officially supported by
Astaro. The primary goal of ACS, however, is to add related
functionality to ASL firewalls - we are not trying to turn ASL into a
desktop environment.